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The Dillon Herald J ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3l>, 1010. VOL. 16. NO. 22. f WORK OF CONGRESS " xt Labored Very Hard And Enacted Important Laws ^ INVESTIGATE BRIBE CHARGES ^ * era 'eparate Committee For Each House mo to Inyestigate Bribery Attempts c"j During Recess ? The Last Aot lati Signed by the President?Some of the the Most Important Legislation nes Passed. _( Ro 1 I * wit Wa?1nricrl/vn Rnoniol TTo?U Iiamca ? U|?via< uavu I1VU3C uJ. win Congress Saturday nii^lit marked its 5,0' closing hour by voting for an investigation of the McMurray Indian sua contracts. Instead of the usual scene to of comparatively undignified relaxa- yid lion from the business of legislation, r0j both Houses devoted exceelingly se- Q? rious attention to the charges of at- cor tempt bribery and other forms of im- the proper influence made in the Senate vls Fridav bv Senator Gore of Oklahoma ^>ri ' # i n and subsequently in the House by j Representative Murphy of Missouri, tov Two separate investigations are Unprovided for?one in each House. me Each body passed a resolution creating a select committee of five mem- ed hers to pursue the inquiry into the 1 bottom during the recess of Con- ?J?| X Ul gress and to report whether any of its members, are, or have been, in- req terested in any of these contracts, rat Until -a late hour in the day it looked ra' rather as if the matter would go by . J default. n The last measure signed by Presi- ^ea lent Taft was a joint resolution to (-?r. ?..ij : ii o i xir x _ nerl tuiuurize me oecrsjiury 01 ?ar io I " loan tents to the Appalachian exposi- y. tion to be held in Knoxville, Tenn., ,j in September, which Mr. Taft ex- ja( peets to attend. Notwithstanding the fact that ac- ' ( iion on many important measures was delayed by conflicts between insurgents j and regular Republican factions in both branches, and that the Demo- a eratic minority- was an active force, ' Congress concluded its long session re<1 with a record for enacting legislation jna that seldom, if ever, has been equal- __c d. , . . in" Chief in the list of legislation for ^ which the administration contended ^ were the following: Striking revision of the railroad ^ laws, including the creation of a com- ? aerce court. Admitting Arizona and Nt;w Mexico as separate States. gcj Authorizing the establishment of jaT postal savings banks. G Giving to the President unlimited authority to withdraw public Lands y0 for conservation purposes. 1 Providing for publicity of^campaigu contributions. ^'ar Authorizing the issue of $20,000,- erj 300 in certificates of indebtedness to complete reclamation projects. * a jj Creating a bureau of mines. a_t Extending the activities of the tar- ron iff board and appropriating $250,000 an( for its use. ig Looking to fhe supervision of traf3c in "white slaves." ^ Authorizing the entry of the sur- jne face of coal lands. eiriJ Crtating a commission to consider -yyj economics in the administration of the Federal government. gjQ Providing a new tariff system for poa the Philippine islands. Legislation which, ultimately is ex- fep pected to give practical prohibition to jnc the Hawaiian Islands. Opposed to the foregoing formid- jj0r 4*- *"' able list of legislation ob'.ained were gol a comparatively small number of ^ii measures which had administration >W( /sympathy but failed of passage. 1 I Not the least conspicious acts of pe, / Congress were the strenuous meas- ya I ures taken by the House of Kepre- ma, sentatives to reform its system of stOJ / conducting business so that less newer r Utll (might be imposed in the Speaker and the organization of which he was the natural leader. The Speaker was removed from the committee on rules, which he had ^ ^ - previously been credited with domiv nating and a new rule was adopted ^ for^the purpose of effectually prevent- \ . ' ing'pigeon-holing of bills by commit- plo; lets when they were approved by a nea majority of the House*. and The increase provided for the navy lauj was notable. Two battleships of 27,r , tint w 300 tons each, armed with 14-inch 'fell guns, making them the most formid- his . able dreadnaughts afloat, were au- the thorized. The naval strength of the Brc United States will be further sup- T plemented by 6 torpedo boat destroy- p, era, 2 colliers and 4 submarines, while an increase of the personnel of i the navy of 3,000 men was authorl\ Various other measures of minor importance were enacted into law. | HE NEWS MINUTELY TOLE e Heart of Happenings Carre; From the Whols Country. lichard A. Coleman, the "Peek's 1 boy" of theatrical fame die?l al Uon. riieodore Roosevelt has asked Govor Hughes to visit him at Sagare Hill in the hear future for a tferenee. drs. Hattie Gorman, widow of th? s Senator Arthur Pue Gorman, ol iryland. died at Washington, al age of 75, after a lingering illis. )ne of the biggest jobs which Col osevelt found himself confronted h when he reached the Outlook ee was the looking over of nearly 00 letters. iy a vote of 25.") to 20 the House tsed a bill providing for the ismce of certificates of indebtedness the amount of $20,000,000 to proie a fund for the completion o1 lamation projects already begun, daharajah Sir Savaji II, gaekwai Baroda, who enjoys an annual itae of $12,000,000, and is one ol 1 richest potentates in India, is iting New York and Boston. His i. Prince Jasingaro, is a student al le. 'radically every window in the en of Algiers, III., was destroyed ilstones which by actual measurent were five inches in ciraumfer fell and hundreds of chickens re killed. The damage is estiinat at $100,000. The Interstate Commerce Commissi denied the application of the llman Car Company to postpone date when the commission's ordei uiring the company to lower its es shall become effective. The e goes into effect July 1. The Cuban house of representaes passed a bill granting a 3( irs' concession to an Americar upany to operate bull fights, cocl its, horse racing and gambling gen .lly on the reservation at Bueni ?ta, a suburb of Havana. The spider beauty spot veil is the est novelty offered to women. Ol trse, it originated in Paris. It ii *opy of a spieler in black chenille 1 is nosed outside ttn? voil Tt lost an inch and a half in diameter e veil is worked in imitation ol spider's web. \t Dusseldorf, Germany, the firsl ;ular air ship passenger service wai ugurated when Count Zeppelin'( lat craft, the Deutsehland, carry' ; 20 passengers, successfully tnad< s first scheduled trip from Fried hshafen to Dusseldorf, a distancf 300 miles, in nine hours. . remarkable operation has jus! sn performed at the New York st-graduate hospital by which t n has been provided with an arti al jaw of pnre gold to replace i rbone destroyed by disease. Th< ^ration is said to be the first o1 > kind ever performed in a Net* rk hospital. V document has been filed in th< ce of the County Clerk of Onon :a county, N. Y., bv which Fredek H. Joss, a business man, trans s his wife to Harry W. Rogers lookkeeper. for the sum of $1. Tlx eement contains many stipulations iceming payment of debts, etc. Mr 1 Mrs. Joss have been married foi years. Rogers was a roomer it ir home. )ld stories about hailstones fall from the clouds as large as her ;s were eclipsed at York, Pa., bj lliam Diflfendaffer, who lives ir ist Babbitt. He says that a hail ne weighing 50 pounds or more nposed of a lot of smaller ones jng the storm of Saturday nighl I in his back yard. It was 31 hes long and 14 inches wide at the 10 he called in several of the neigh's, who vouch for his statements ne do not credit the story, and nk that a quantity cf hail wai ?pt together and frozen. 'he report of the local Internal ,-enue Collector, at Wheeling, W , shows that lO.OOO.OCO stogies are ie in Wheeling each month. More gies are mado there than in an} er city in the world. L recommendation has been mada Congress by Postmaster General chcock that a law be enacted to eranify the senders or owners of d and fourth class domestic matlost in the mails. Vhen Henry Thompson Brown, emyed at a saloon at Marysville r Helena, Mont., found two nickelf I a dime on the floor, he began ghing at his good fortune and conled to laugh violently until h? over dead. It was found that violent latnrhl?r u?.i ?J?" ' * ? nau icsuiiea lr breaking of a blood vessel >wn was colored and 60 years old 'he factory of the B. J. (Harrison lir Company, Winstea?|, Conn, eh is operated by wa'tjer fron hland lake, has been rtinning 24 rs a day for several daya, so manj i having found their way into th< m n the wheel ?it that it wai tossible to cloee them. \ I Mrs. George Beach, wife of a leading photographer of Houston, created a sensation on on-1 of the crowded thoroughfares by shooting four times ' with a revolver at Charles Bader.. None of the shots took elfeet. Mrs. Beach claims that Bader kdled her j dog. She was placed under arrest. ; Philadelphia has a genuine ease of hookworm disease, the first one ever seen in that city. Charles Keel, 35 years old. is the victim. On June 5 l he was taken to the Oermantown Hospital. s It is estimated Chicago spends ? $500,000 flailv for "cooling bevert ages." A prominent manufacturers of - ice cream said that on a hot day more than $200,000 is spent for ice-cream . and ices. More than $200,000 is I paid out for beer and other intoxi; cants and another $100,000 for lemonr ade and soft drinks. Birmingham, Ala., was deeply stir) red over the news of the suicide of . Mrs. W. P. Harding and the death s early this morning of O. R. Johnson, . who shot and fatally wounded himE self half an hour after the suicide of Mrs > Campaign Contributions Public After 3 Elections. i Washington, Special. ?Campaign t contributions will be made public only after elections. The House ! adopted the conference report on the campaign publicity bill after a " spirited debate, during which many " members, especially Democrats, ex' pressed their disapproval of the action of the House conferees in agreeing to the Senate amendments. Forest Reserve Bill Put Off. Washington. Special.?After forty c minutes' discussion trffe Senate Sat-1 1 urday agreed to vote February 15 ! next on the bill looking to the erection of the forest reserves in the White mountains and the Southern Appalachian. The J>ill was adopted 1 by the House Friday night. Ballinger Committee Adjourns. k Washington. Special.?The Ballinger-Pinchot investigation committee i met Saturday and adjourned to meet [ in Minneapolis September 5th, when r effort to be made to agree on a report. l Senators Get $1,800 Masseur. [ Washington. Special.?After all the discussion, which took place in 1 the Senate while the legislative bill i was being considered over the proposed employment of a masseur to take charge of the elaborate batlirooufc; in the marble office building occupied by senators, they will enjoy ^ the services of such an attendant. 1 Nagel to Sit on "The Lid." When President Tat't goes to Bev1 erlv soon after Congress adjourns he : will leave Secretary Charles Nagel, of the Department of Commerce and r Labor, who is (> feet 3 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds, to "sit on the ' lid." Roosevelt Paid $500 Duty. New York, Special.?Although Col- | 1 leetor Loeb declined to give out the > exact amount paid by Col. Roosevelt n as duty on his personal baggage, one . of the customs officials said the r amount was about $500. i Victory for Printers. i Washington. Snevial.?TIip TTnno? i i passed the hill introduced by Reprer sentative Touvelle limiting Govern- 1 i ment printing on envelopes to tlie \ city, county and State to which each , letter is to be returned. This pre- ' , vents the Government from printing I the name of the sender on envelopes j r and is a victory for the printers of ' America. The Senate is expected to 1 - pass the bill before t'ue end of the ! . session. I i I Democrats For Harmon For President 1 Dayton, O., Special.?The DemoI cratic party of Ohio goes into the j State campaign this fall with Judson ' Harmon as its candidate for Oover- 1 nor and President. The Democratic ' ' State convention which completed its labors Thursday endorsed him in the I 1 t strongest terms for the presidency < of the United States after it had re- ' nominated him for Governor by acclamation. j Sharper Sobs Old Women. , Washington, Special.?A fraud or- 1 der issued by the Postoflfice Depart- 1 , ment withdraws the use of the mails h from S. L. Hutchinson, of Birming, ham, Ala., who is alleged to have mulcted women responding to a fake advertisement for traveling companion to an imaginary old lady, each 1 candidate for the position, described as profitable and agreeable, being re| i quired to send Hutchinson a dollar 1 [ and references. Officials allege that ' I Hutchinson had no position to bestow. * | He was arrested on a charge of us- | 1 I ing the mails to defraud. I CANNONS SUMMARY '1 * ( Distinguished Speaker Praises The Labor of Congress. CHARACTER OF WORK COUNTS. * Change of Rules Have Amounted to ' Nothing?6,000 of 27,000 Bills Con- * sidered?300 Public Laws Enacted { ?Postal Savings Bank Bill a Law ?Appropriations Not Near as 1 Large as Demanded by the People, j Washington, Special.?Joseph G. ) Cannon summarized the work of Congress in a statement, he gave to the * press. The Speaker paid most attention to the legislative work accomplished. referring only incidentally to the tight which had been made ' on the rules of the House. The re- , form of the rules, he said, had re- j suited in little advantage. The Speaker declared that the Congress just ended had done more and better work than any Congress of j which he had been a member during his tiiirt\-five years of service in the ( House. After recounting the legisla- j tion enacted, the Speaker said: "This work of legislation has gone on quietly, hut effectively, while those who view Congress from a dis- j tance have been assuming that the House was doing nothing but changing its rules. The changes of rules have contributed to the pleasure and perhaps the power of some individuals in the House; hut the current of legislation itself lias moved on as usual with little disturbance on ac count of a few new methods and with little advantage therefrom. "I do not think the work o a Congress should he measured by the vol- j ume 01 Business uui ov me cnaracier ot' the legislation and the care taken j :n its consideration. Measured by ( that standard the sixty-first Congress | will take a high place in the record , of legislation. There have been, how- ( ever, more than 0,000 of the 27.000 bills considered and reported fnjm committees and about 300 public laws enacted in this session, as against 400 ^ public laws for the entire Sixtieth Congress. I can commend the entire membership of the House for industry and intelligence in their legis# lative work of this session." "This Congress has not only revised the tariff, without disturbing business. but it has enacted important legislation, amending the interstate commerce law. making that law more effective, giving the Interstate Commerce Commission greater power and creating a eourt of commerce and this without seriously affecting the business of the railroads or checking their increase of wages to their employes. This seems to me to meet the definition of statesmanship in legislation. The Speaker then detailed other legislation which had been enacted." "The appropriations," he said-, "have been large but not nearly as large as demanded by the people who were agitating over the development of various departments of the government. "The Democrats have talked about economy but they have helped enlarge every appropriation and there are bills introduced by Democrats and not acted upon which would call for $500,000,000 additional expenditure. So, I take it, their talk of econ [>iny is Pickwickian. As I said in the beginning, the work of this Congress has been greater than any other with which I have been identified as a f member and it has been constructive legislation in the face of destructive j tactics and efforts to create factional ( strife. These efforts. I regret to say, ( have received more attention in the .j public press than the real work of j legislation and having given so much ^ space to these revolutionary efforts at the expense of the record of work, it is not surprising that some of the ( editors should suddenly discover in s these last davs that the Republican j Congress has enacted laws to carry , out the pledges of the Republican , platform and then jumps at.the con- j elusion that this work has been done in hastre before adjournment instead v of being the painstaking effort of sev- ( en months by the committees and the j members of Congress." Old Woman Married Boy. Hartford, Conn., Special?The conservatory appointed over the estate of Mrs. Lucinda M. Cushman Treat-J a (loddard, *70 years old, in the Probate I i: Court upon action brought by her|c son. F.ilttin A Tr.?o i- ? J .. ... ?k. t vuit IVIIUW 111^ Hfl ^ marriage last September to Charles ^ R. Ooddard. 21 years of age and a *member of the Yale Law School, is' d set aside by a decision of .Tudfel t Burpee handed down in the Superior* ^ Court. 1 She is said to have property valued in excess of $20,000, and after her * marriage her son, instituting the pro- * ceedings, alleged that she was not ^ ;apable of managing her affairs. 1 i J IN OLD SOUTH CAROLINA 3ream of the N?wb Gathered From All 8ections of the Commonwealth For Our Many Readers. State Candidates. At noon .June 22 was the last hour riven candidates to tile their pledges, ['hose who "signed out" are made mblic by Gen. Wilie .Jones, chairnan of the executive committee, and s as follows: For Governor?Colo L. Blease, Jno. T. Duncan, C. C. Featherstonc. F. H. Jvatt, Thomas G. McLeod. John G. Richards, Jr. For Lieutenant Governor?E. iYalker Duvall, Charles A. Smith. For Secretary of State?R. M. Mc'own. For Comnl rnl lor flnti nro 1 ? A W fones. For State Treasurer?R. H. JU?nlings. For Adjutant General?T. K. Vlct^ully, Jr., W. W. Moore* Charles SCewnham, J. M. Richardson. For State* Superintendent of Education?J. E. Swearingen. For Attorney General?B. B. Evans, J. Fraser Lyon. For Railroad Commissioner?Jas. Eansler, G. McDuflie. Hampton, G. PL Mahon, O. C. Scarborough. For Congress?1st district. Geo. S, Legare, J. H. l.assasne. "Jd district. L. P. Bovlston, Jas. F Byrnes, C. W. Garris, J. 0. Patterson. 3rd district. Wvatt Aiken, Julius E. Boggs, Coke D. Mann. 4th district, Jos. T. Johnson. 5th district. Thos. B. Butler, D. E Finley. J. K. Henrv. 6th district, Geo. W. Brown, J. E Ellerbe. P. A. Hodges, B. B. Sellers 7th district, A. F. Lever. W. W, Ray. The six candidates for Gubernatorial honors this year are: Cole L Blease, of Newberry; John T. Duncan. of Columbia; C. C. Featherstone af Laurens; F. H. Hyatt, of Columbia; Thomas G. McLeod. of BishopvHle. and John G. Richards, of Liberty Hill, Kershaw couuty. Gas-Electric Cars on Southern. Following the announcement made by the Southern Railway Company on May 31 that tlie use of gas-electric ?ars in some of the more congested listricts along its lines was contemplated, it is detinitelv announced by hat company that its steam passenger train service in the Greenville ;erritorv is to be supplemented in iniy ?y tne inauguration of regular tas-elpetric motor ear service. Pending the completion of three notor cars now being built for the southern Railway Company, the nanagement, determined not to delay lie inauguration of the new service, las arranged with the General Klecrie Company for the return of the fas-electric car which was used experimentally with very satisfactory esults on the lines between Manassas and Strasburg, Va., last sumner. Gas-electric motor car service will je furnished in the Greenville terriory by this car until the delivery of wo improved gas-electric cars, being milt especially for the Southern Railway Company by the General Electric Company, and a gasoline car being instructed by the McKeen Motor *ar Company of Omaha, Keb. Those cars will be completed in a *ew months and will be put into egular service as soon as delivered o the Southern Railway Company. South Carolina in "Pork Barrel." A careful inspection of the figures ihows that South Carolina has been veil provided for, the following beng the provisions: Camden, $50,000; JatTnev, $10,000; Orangeburg. $10,)00; Columbia, $75,000; Bennettsville, >50.000; Marion, $7,500; Laurens and "nion, each $10,000; Newberry $10,100. Prosecute Grafters July Fourth. Attorney General Lyon announces hat the trial of the alleged dispenary grafters would come up at the erm of court commencing in Cheser on July 4. Among those to be ri"d will be Jodie M. Kawlinson and folin Black. They are charged with onspiracy. The trial of Hub Evans nil come up at Newberry at the next erm of court for that county accordng to Gen. Lyon. / / Rich, Unused Lands on Coast. In the opinion of Mr. A. G. Smith ,nd so expressed in a recent bulletin ccntfrl V**? 4U? A * " uj tuo i?cpariment of Agriulture there are thousands of acres f land in the low country of this itate that could be made most promotive and paying farms by the inrodoction of tile drainage. He hinks that the capitalists of the coast ounties should erect tile factories, 'here are only two tile factories in he State and thesa are owned by inlividuals for their personal use on arms owned. I 1i>n CHARLTON CAUGHT * Boyish Murderer May Go From Jail a Free Man. v AN UNPRECEDENTED SITUATION Oannot be Tried Under the Laws of | New Jersey?Up to United State*? ' Italy May Not Orant Extradition. Family Declare Young Man Ibum * V 1. C ' 1 !1 ? PL..I ft i>ew iurw, opeciai.?i urier > kon will nol be tried for murder in the courts of New Jersey. "Whether he beat his wife on the head into insensibility with blows with a wooden imillet at Lake Como, Italy, and then stuffed her, still living, into* a trunk ' and sank the trunk in the waters of the lake, rs a matter outside the jurisdiction of the New Jersey courts. J On the other hand, he will not be 4 released until the question of hia sanity is determined. This is assured by the Charlton family, who announced .through counsel that if the youth's mind proves dangerously unsound they would take the initiative in having him committed to some suitable institution. The attitude of the New Jersey courts, as defined by Prosecutor i Pierre Garven of Hudson county, is this: "The State of New Jersey now holds Charlton merely on the com- ) > plaint of the Italian consul general as a fugitive from Italian .justice, pending a request for his extradition from the Italian Department of State through the Italian minister to Secretary Knox of the American De partnicnt of State. If extradition is not demanded there is absolutely no action that the courts of this State can take. Whether the Federal courts can still step in is a matter outside my province and on which the At> torney General of the United States is mnrp nomnpiiinl tn itnss rtniriion " Tims there is a possibility that Cliarl/.ou ma> walk from jail a free man without trial, for the general trend of the dispatches from Rome seem to indicate that the Italian i government will act in the matter with reluctance, if at all. since the demand of extradition to Italy of an American subject who has committed a crime within Italian jurisdiction would imperil a cherished Italian precedent. Nevada Governor Won't Stop Fight. Ogden, Utah, Special.?Governor DickerSon, of Nevada, will not interfere with the Jeffries-Johnson tight. "* When seen by a representative of the Associated Press the Governor said that the laws of Nevada licensed prize fighting and that, therefore, the Executive of the State was without authority to stop the tight. "However, if there is any evidence ' I of a fake fight," said Governor L)i?kerson, "I shall stop it, but I am convinced the contest is on its merits. Be certain to qualifv that statement as to the fake tight." Jack Johnson Goes Too Fast. San Francisco, Special.?Jack Johnson was taken to the city prison v\ ednesday on a charge of violating the automobile speeil laws. He was released on $50 bail. Johnson was arrested at his training camp where he had locked himself in. Three policemen broke in and with drawn revolvers took the negro from the room. Under advice of Chief of Police Martin, a charge of resisting an officer was changed to one of exceeding the speod limit. Hoke Smith Enters Georgia Race. Atlanta, CJa., Special.?Former Gov. Hoke Smith, who was defeated for re-election two years ago by Joseph M. Brown, has announced his candidacy for the governorship. Gov. Brown is a candidate for reelection. Idaho Gets the Honor. Washington, Special.?The battleship Idaho is to enjoy for a year the coveted official honor of being the best hitter in the American navy. A comparison of the shooting performance of the battleships this year is made public at the Navy Department. The Idaho made a score of 46.121. J The South Carolina gets second place with a score of 42.585, and the Wisconsin third with a score of 40.478. First Cotton Bale. Houston, Tex., Special.?TYeighin* 416 pounds, the first bale of tne cot. ton crop 1910, reached here Thursday from Mercedes. The bale classed as good middling and at auction brought $375. "Golden Role" Chief Vindicated. Cleveland, Special.?Fred Kohler, the "Golden Rule" chief of police who was suspended from his position by Major Bcuhr upon the filing of charges alleging drunkenness and ins- "A morality, was acquitted bj the eivil service commission. Kohler will be